Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"Beware, lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want"

Kate Hudson, Actress

"The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant"

Ginny B. Waite

"I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"I find it very offensive when the government tells me what I can and cannot watch. Censor yourself!"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights, and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times"

Julius Rosenberg, Criminal

"Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe"

John Prescott, Politician

"I mean, people just have a way of - y'know, they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law"

Demosthenes, Statesman

"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical"

Henry George, Economist

"With the exception of the New York Times, Fox News, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization"

Ginny B. Waite

"The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed"

William Henry Harrison, President

"I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free"

William Henry Harrison, President

"Every President hates the Press"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"By and large, the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it"

John Linder, Politician

"In the end, it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy"

Learned Hand, Judge

"We should all have the opportunity to express what we want to express"

Richard King, Director

"I knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again"

Audie Murphy, Soldier

"Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission"

Joseph Sobran, Activist

"Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it"

Learned Hand, Judge

"The Pentagon today will not allow any of these people who work for the Pentagon, to talk to the media. They have gagged them from talking to members of Congress"

Curt Weldon, Politician

"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us"

Daniel Ellsberg, Celebrity

"Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not"

John Linder, Politician

"What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country"

John Linder, Politician

"In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable"

John Linder, Politician

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